JFK was full of platitudes, thanks to his speech writers...
The "ask not what your country can do for you..." line came from his old headmaster at Choate.
Haven't had the opportunity to read the whole thread...just quickly scanned it.
Has anybody pointed to the biggest elephant in the room, i.e. the stupidity of way we tax ourselves?
Our current tax policy is the number one killer of American manufacturing, job-creation, savings and capital formation.
If we don't change it, and soon, there won't be anything left to save.